Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell

Know Your Enemy: Return of the National Conservatives

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 29, 2021

The second National Conservatism conference showed that the ideology has moved into the mainstream of the American right.

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, the Father of Fusionism

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ November 10, 2021

A deep dive into the life and work of Frank S. Meyer, the longtime senior editor at National Review who became most famous for his theory of “fusionism,” which combined the traditional and libertarian strains of the conservative movement.

Know Your Enemy: The American Right’s Hungary Hearts, with Lauren Stokes and John Ganz

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 25, 2021

Historian Lauren Stokes and writer John Ganz unpack the American right’s ongoing embrace of Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.

Know Your Enemy: God, Death, and the Pandemic

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ October 18, 2021

Sarah Jones discusses her recent essay, “An Atheist Reconsiders God in the Pandemic.”

Know Your Enemy: Twenty Years of Terror, with Spencer Ackerman

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 16, 2021

National security reporter Spencer Ackerman explains how the War on Terror laid the groundwork for Trump.

Know Your Enemy: Living at the End of Our World, with Daniel Sherrell and Dorothy Fortenberry

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ September 3, 2021

What does it feel like to imagine the future as climate catastrophe looms?

Know Your Enemy: Buckley for Mayor, with Sam Tanenhaus

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ August 23, 2021

William F. Buckley Jr. biographer Sam Tanenhaus digs into the National Review founder’s 1965 run for mayor of New York City.

Know Your Enemy: After Nationalism, with Samuel Goldman

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 28, 2021

An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”

Know Your Enemy: The Afterlife of January 6

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ July 19, 2021

Was the January 6 breaching of the Capitol a genuine coup attempt by an extra-parliamentary faction of the Trump movement? Or was it a disorganized and pathetic act of desperation?

Know Your Enemy: Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ June 21, 2021

A deep-dive into Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the Straussian political philosopher Allan Bloom, who achieved late-in-life wealth and fame after publishing his controversial best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind.

Know Your Enemy: The Enemy Within, with Brandy Jensen

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 25, 2021

Writer, editor, and advice columnist Brandy Jensen answers listener questions about how to be a person again (or for the first time) after the pandemic.

Know Your Enemy: The Long Farewell to Majority Rule, with Joshua Tait

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 18, 2021

What are the intellectual origins of conservative hostility to majoritarian democracy?

Know Your Enemy: Overheated, with Kate Aronoff

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ April 26, 2021

Kate Aronoff talks about the history of climate change denial, how the fossil-fuel industry’s strategy has shifted in recent years, and the prospects for a just, sustainable future.